Demo: TransMedia’s Glide

TransMedia’s Glide OS and Glide Business online operating environment are platform-agnostic mobile-operating systems that support devices running Windows Mobile, Mac OS X, BlackBerry and Palm OS, as well as the Google-backed Android platform.

Walt and Kara welcome Donald Leka, TransMedia’s Chairman and CEO to the stage.

Leka offers a bit of background about Glide, which cuts across all operating systems.

Looks like demo will include Mac, Windows and iPhone. Starting with the Mac. Deka notes that Glide is a mobile-operating system that runs on top of the local operating system. He pulls up the Deka desktop. Moves a few icons around … moves on to the music application, launches it not from the Mac dock, but from Glide’s own dock. Leka explains that in addition to real-time navigation, Glide offers object-oriented navigation, he says.

Glide includes device recognition as well as file transcoding. Moving on to the word-processing app. Pretty typical.

OS supports a rights system that allows five different levels of access. Also offers real-time collaboration, video conferencing. Walt asks about browser support. Leka says Firefox is best, but company is working on compatibility with other browsers as well.

Walt notes that entire OS is written as a local application.

Glide is advertising free. How do you make money? asks Kara. Glide offers five gigabytes of storage for free, Leka says; after that, there’s a monthly subscription fee.

Demonstrating file rights. Very granular. You can set rights to permit as little as a one-time view of a document.

Moving over to Windows machine. Demoing “Kids Glide.” Same sort of UI, just a bit more kid friendly.

Demoing iPhone version now. Loads very quickly. Noting that Glide requires a browser, Walt wonders how it will run on phones that don’t offer good browsing experiences. Moving on to a photo editing app. Leka notes that Glide plays Windows Media files on the iPhone and Quicktime movies on Windows Mobile phones.

Jumping to Glide’s word-processing app on iPhone. Can export to a variety of formats, including PDF.

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